Toy



Patented Mar. 16, 1926.

HEINRICH EEI'IEB'ER, NEW YORK, N. `Y.

' TOY.

Application filed October 7', 1924.' Serial No. 742,094.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HEINRICH Rnrrnnnn, a citizen of Austria, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York;` have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, or which the following is a specilication.

The main object of this invention is to provide a novel type of toy for young children. The usual type ol' toy is either entertaining or instructive, but rarely does it combine these qualities. The toy disclosed in this application is both entertaining and instructive and also induces the child unknowingly to invigorating exercise. The structure of the same is a simple disk which has ears extending in opposite directions from both faces, these ears serving as 'fans which are propelled by the wind and cause the toy to rotate rapidly.

Another object of the invention is to provide a plurality of blades as mentioned which are releasably mounted in place so that ready interchangeability may be had.

These and other objects will become apparent in the description below, in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts of the drawing.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevational view or the toy.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view or the same.

Figure 3 is a front elevational view of the disk with the ins or blades removed therefrom.

Figure 4 is an enlarged partially sectioned elevational view, showing the means of securing the blades in place on the disk in detail.

Figure 5 is a perspective View of one of the blades ot the toy.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 10 indicates an annular disk formed of card board or other inexpensive and easily worked material and its periphery 11 is adapted to form the traction surface upon which it rolls. This disk has a large concentric opening which is formed by removing the enclosed material in triangular sections which form separated blades 13. For each triangular portion 13 removed from the center or the disk, a blind channel 14 is formed by hollowing out the disk material radially. These channels diverge lengthwise from the open end of the same located on the edge of the opening 12 toward the outer periphery of the disk so that said channels have a greater dimension at their bottom than at their top, at the latter portion of which they arel restricted.

Each of the triangular sections forming the blades 13 have right angle extending tongues 15 which project sidewise from the lower or base edge of the same. These tongues vare slitted intermediate their thickness thruout their width and normally lie spaced-apart from each other, the slit separating the parts of the tongue, being indicated by the numeral 16. It is to be noted that the mouths oi the channels 14 are of 70 such dimensions as to permit the ready entrance or the split portions of the tongues 15 when the latter are mutually urged toward each other.

To provide a decorative toy, the surfaces of the triangular blades 13 may be coated with various crayon colors or the like and may be arranged according to desire. These blades are made readily interchangeable for the purpose of rearranging the colored blades on the disk 10. A blade 13 is readily removed or detached from the disk 10 by grasping the blade by pulling the same upwardly so that the split portion of the tongue is pulled out of its corresponding channel 14. As the channels are or' divergent proportions and the tongues split and separated at the ends where they enter said channel, said tongues will be readily retained secured to the disk as this means locks the tongue in placein the channel.

I claim Y 1. A toy comprising an annular disk having a concentric opening therein, the material removed when Jforming the opening beand means on said blades engaging said channels for securing said blades tothe disk.

2. A toy comprising an annular disk having a concentric opening therein, the matcrial removed when forming the opening being shaped into triangular sections providing blades, tapering channels extending radially into the disk and having their mouths communicating lwith the opening, tongue members secured to said blades and adapted to register in said divergent chan- U0 nels, and means on said tongues for releasably locking said tongues in the channels.

3. A toy comprising an annular disk having concentric opening therein, the material removed when forming the opening being shaped into triangular sections providing blades, tapering channels extending radially into the disk and having their mouths communicating with the opening, tongue members secured to said blades and adapted to register in said divergent channels, said tongues being split, the split ends of said tongues coursing in opposite directions to each other, said tongues being adapted to snugly register in said divergent channels and releasably lock the blade on the disk.

In testimony whereof: I affix my signature.

HEINRICH REITERER. 

